Natalie Dormer
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ABOUT NATALIE DORMER Date of Birth: 11 February 1982/83 (not confirmed) Birth Place: Reading, Berkshire, England Eye Color: blue Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m) Family: Mother (housewife), Stepfather (builder), sister Samantha & brother Mark. (she won't talk about her biological father) Fiance: Anthony Byrne (director/photographer) Education: Webber Douglas Academy Actor Bio:Dormer attended <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiltern_Edge_Secondary_School" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Chiltern Edge Secondary School">Chiltern Edge Secondary School</a>, before moving to <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Blue_Coat_School" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Reading Blue Coat School">Reading Blue Coat School</a>, an independent boys' <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_school" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Boarding school">boarding school</a> that admitted girls in the <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_form" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Sixth form">sixth form</a>. During her school years she trained in dance at the Allenova School of Dancing. Natalie has said that she suffered from bullying problems during her childhood and it's something she "still can't place today." Just 6 months out of Drama School, she landed a role in the movie Casanova & a 3 picture Disney deal
<a class="external" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fumALoX7CrM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Natalie at the British Library exhibition for Henry VIII's 500th anniversary">Natalie at the British Library exhibition for Henry VIII's 500th anniversary</a> | CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Non-acting careers: Movies: The Counselor (2013) Captain America (2011) W.E. (2011) Fencewalker (2010) City Life (2009) Flawless (2007) Casanova (2005) TV Shows: Games of Thrones (S2), Poe, Silk, Miss Marple, Masterwork, Distant Shores, The Tudors, Rebus Stage: "Pride & Prejudice", "Under Milk Wood", "School for Scandal" Big break:"Casanova", 2005 with Heath Ledger & Sienna Miller. Best known for: Her incredible portrayal of Anne Boleyn Awards: Upcoming projects: The Fades (Supernatural TV series)
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FAVOURITES: In 2009 Natalie said some of her favourites were Music - Radiohead, The Kings of Leon, U2 and a bit of Kanye West were on her IPod at the time. Books - Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne ( "I’ve just finished Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and started Diana Athill’s autobiography. I’m very keen to read Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, which has been looking at me from my bookshelf for weeks so I’ll take it to set with me for the next job") |
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Natalie at the Tudors Season 2 Premier 2008 | |
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| Natalie with headteacher Paul Leonard when she returned to Chiltern Edge School in Sonning Common *see The Tudors - in the media page for more on this story |
with her 36 yr old boyfriend Anthony Byrne (Irish film director) whom she met while filming the series in Dublin “I might seem a bit of a handful to directors because I have been told that I have a very dominant personality ‘ and I don’t think you could print what Anthony says about me!” | |
For more on Anthony Byrne see his website: <a class="external" href="http://www.anthonybyrne.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="anthonybyrne.net">anthonybyrne.net</a> (there are a couple of stunning photos of Natalie) | Engaged! 2011 |
2012 | 2011 |
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Author Dr. Susan Bordo with Natalie who she interviewed for her new book called <a class="external" href="http://www.facebook.com/thecreationofanneboleyn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title='"The Creation of Anne Boleyn"'>"The Creation of Anne Boleyn"</a> | <embed height="363" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/thetudorswiki/widget/genericvideo/aaa2eef0fa89a757e00cc2e74810576c3c2c65fc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="363" wmode="transparent"/> Susan Bordo discusses her new book about Anne Boleyn comment: Love her sentence about how fascinating it is that "fragments of gossip get turned into hard history" |